English Explanatory Dictionary

monk's pepper

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The chaste tree.
  2. The fruit or another medicinal product of this tree; chasteberry

Word forms

monk's pepper

Etymology

From the cultural notion that monks needed to be chaste, and so (at least, as imagined by users of this word) they may have consumed parts of it as an aid to maintain chastity.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on M Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary